1st Edition
Plantations Privatization Poverty and Power Changing Ownership and Management of State Forests
328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
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Private sector delivery of state services is increasingly common worldwide, and state forest plantation management is no exception. Increasingly governments are transferring rights and responsibilities to the private sector for state-owned plantations. Some claim that this is the road to achieving sustainable forest management, greater contributions to local livelihoods and poverty reduction,... Read more
Executive Summary * Introduction * Part 1: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions: An Overview - Plantations, Livlihoods and Poverty * Plantation Development and Management: Drivers, Governance and Changing Roles * Balancing Acts: Reconciling Public Policy and Transfer of Ownership and Management * Conclusions and Ways Forward * Part 2: Country Case Studies - A Mixed Economy Commonwealth of States: Australia * Early Experience of Total Divestment: Chile * From Centrally Planned Economy to Vigorous Rural Enterprise: China * Joint Management of State Forest Lands: Experiences from India * Corporation, Commercialization and Privatization: New Zealand * Juggling Social and Economic Goals: South Africa * From Plantation Development to Steward of the Nation's Forests: The UK * Notes * References * Index
Biography
Michael Garforth is a freelance forestry consultant and a Director with Tacsus Ltd, Tbilisi. James Mayers is Director, Forestry and Land Use Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development, and co-author of Policy that Works for Forests and People (2004), The Sustainable Forestry Handbook (2004).
